Tamilnad Network of Positive People

When HIV was considered a dreaded disease with huge stigma and discrimination attached to it, TNP+ was started in 1994. It was registered as a trust Read morein 1995. Ever since its inception, the network is the solace to thousands of PLHIVs. Treatment, Care and Support are the main areas in which TNP+ was actively involved. Through Community Care Centres (CCC) and Drop-in Centres (DIC), the PLHIVs were guided to make choicest decisions on treatment and its adherence. TNP+ is also actively involved in capacity building of the PLHIVs by mobilising internal resources. Currently, TNP+ along with 32 networks across the state of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry work for the PLHIVs through the Vihaan project.To improve access to, and quality education and health care. The founder Mr. Rama.Pandian has dedicated his life entirely for the welfare of the People Living with HIV/AIDS and brought about see-change in the lives of thousands of PLHIVs. He spread the concept of positive network across the length and breadth of India and instrumental in starting many other district and state-level networks and effecting policy changes for the treatment, care and support for the people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. He was the general secretary of Indian Network of Positive People (INP+). Currently, he is the Vice President of National Coalition for People Living with HIV/AIDS in India (NCPI+) and also a member of ART Grievance & Redressal Committee, TANSACS. Vision: To live and help build a world where no human suffers an unfair disadvantage such as HIV. Mission: •Meet every need that can be met: To identify, reach out and respond to every need of people living with HIV and enable them to meet the need. •Provide skills to negotiate barriers: To provide skills for people to work around, overcome or demolish every barrier to good health and quality of life. •Stand up against injustice: To use all available ethical means to fight injustice when such injustice deprives some of us for the benefit of others. •Improve systems and methods: Constantly work at improving the systems, methods and processes of our work and share the knowledge freely. •Ethical Integrity: to maintain our worn ethical integrity and help foster an environment of trust and honesty in all that we do and never compromise on ethics